HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Group/Stack events in activity stream

If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

GraphQL Support

Add GraphQL support so we can have a better API experience
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Allow more than ten entries in the digest mails

We started to use Connections API generated activity feed items a lot for our business execution systems. People complain about the fact that only ten out of all entries are sent out via the digest feature by mail. We would like to extend to at le...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists
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